Riverdale season 3 spoilers: Did you spot huge Laurie Lake and Gargoyle King twist?

RIVERDALE season 3 is nearly halfway through now with the midseason finale set to be airing next week. But have fans missed a huge twist about new character Laurie Lake and her involvement with the mysterious Gargoyle King?

Episode seven from Riverdale season three was called The Man in Black and followed Archie Andrews (played by KJ Apa) and Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) on the run from crime lord Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos). The episode from The CW show saw the pair of high schoolers meet a strange new character called Laurie Lake (Riley Keough). The Man in Black also saw Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) locked up in the Sisters of Quiet Mercy institute as she sought answers about the Gargoyle King.

During her incarceration, Betty stumbled across the Gargoyle King’s chamber where patients were taken when they misbehaved as a form of punishment.

Betty watched on in horror as she saw a girl getting dragged through a corridor, away the chamber after seeking penitence for her actions.

The girl screamed out in terror after being subjected to a horrific ordeal within the room but it wasn’t clear what had happened.

However, eagle-eyed fans may have noticed that the girl appeared to be none other that Laurie Lake, who had been seen earlier in the episode getting up close and personal with Archie after they shared a kiss.

Laurie appeared to have been sent to the horrific institute, where Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) was forced to undergo gay conversion therapy in season two, after she failed to keep Archie prisoner at Lake Farm.

After finding out Archie’s true identity, Laurie had knocked out the teen with a frying pan and tied him up before calling Hiram.

Luckily, Jughead found Archie and the duo fled from Lake Farm just seconds before Hiram entered the barn where the footballer was supposed to be.

Is Laurie’s presence in the institute Hiram’s doing? Could she and Betty team up to escape from the Sisters?

Actress Keough’s IMDb page states that she’s only going to be in one episode of the show so far but Laurie’s presence at the Sisters of Quiet Mercy can’t just be left to one side.